Funeral-advertising device or annunciator



(No Mode1.).

J. E. GROSJEAN.

EUNEEAI. ADVERTISING DEVICE 0E ANNUNCIATOE.

No. 881,882. Pmented'Nov. 2, 1888.V

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JAMES E. GROSJEAN, OFFREDERIOKSBURG, OHIO.

FUNERAL-ADVERTISING DEVICE- OR ANNLVJNCIATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 351,862, dated November 2, 1886. 'Application filed I une 12, 1886. Serial No. 204,975. (No model.)

is a specication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.,

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, neat, and convenient device suitable to be hung in a public place, as the vestibule of a church or elsewhere, for announcing a f uneral. To this end my device consists of a plate -or tablet adapted to receive several lines of movable letters or words to make up the desired announcement. suitable ornamental frame, and the letters or words are preferably protected by a glass. To thetop ofthe frame is attached a suspending cord or ribbon, and to the bottom thereof is secured -a rack of convenient form to receive the crape by which the device is draped.

In the drawings, Figure l represents my funeraladvertising device in full with the crape attached, and Fig. 2 is a section of the same With the crape removed. l Y

A denotes a plate or tablet provided with grooves or ways with overhanging divisionsa, for the reception of movable letters or Words b, which make up any desired announcement to give notice of the day, time of day, and place where the funeral of a deceased person is to be held. For this purpose there should be room for several lines or-rows of words or letters, four being shown in the drawings. The movable letters or Words may be on cardboard or metallic plates .or thin blocks of wood and it loosely in the grooves of the tablet, being slid intov the grooves from the ends thereof.

The tablet A is removably attached, as by screws d, to a suitable ornamental frame, B, and the latter is provided at its top with a suspending ribbon or cord, e, and at its bottom with a rack or wire to which the crape D, by which the device is'draped, is attached. This rack consist-s, in the form of my invention herein shown, of a horizontal Wire, C, pointed at one end, and having a bend, c, connecting it with a vertical portion, c', attached The tablet isinclosed .by a

to the frame, said bend giving the said wire O sufficient elasticity to enable its pointed end to be readily inserted into and removed from a hook, c2, on the lower end of a short Wire, c3, attached to the frame B, the form of the bend c being such as to cause the wire O normally to spring downward, so as to be retained in said hook. Thus the pointed end of said wire may be lifted out of the said hook lcan then be slid out of their grooves and other words or letters inserted to make up any desired announcement. The crape with which the device is draped can, if desired, be used for drapery at the house of the deceased person, either before or after being used to drape the annunciator or funeral advertising device.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. A funeral-advertisingdevice or annunciator consisting of a tablet provided with words or letters constituting the announcenient, combined with a frame in which the said tablet is relnovablyA secured, said frame having at its top a suspending device, as a ribbon or cord, and at its lower part a crapeattaching rack.

2. VThe combination, with the grooved tab let A and the movable Words or letters adapted to be slid into the grooves thereof, of the fra-me B, in which the said tablet is removably j secured, the glass E, and the @rape-attaching rack attached to the lower part of the said frame, and consisting of the bent and pointed .Wire-C c c and the hooked wire c2 ci, substantially as set forth.

Y In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. JAMES E. GROSJEAN. Witnesses:

A. L. OBER, W. S. PEPPARD. 

